Thanks

I'll give that a try.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gevik Babakhani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bob Pawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Postgresql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] serial column


On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 15:29 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote:
"A possible solution for this would be to regenerate the entire column's
values every time a record gets deleted starting form 1. but then again
this would be very slow if you have a very large table"

I don't anticipate the table to be more than a few hundred rows - certainly
fewer than 1,000.

Could you point to some documentation for regenerating a column's values
other than manual??

Bob

I am afraid there is no built-in way to do that.
perhaps you could create a function that:
step1: creates a sequence (with random name)....
step2: update table set field=netval('random_seq_name');
step3: drop sequence...

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Regards,
Gevik Babakhani






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